Snowflake Challenge Day 12

Day 12 - In your own space, create your own challenge.

Echoing what some others have said, and what day 7 was about: try something new!
If you've never participated in a bingo or icon challenge or exchange then give it a go! If you've never listened to a podcast or watched a fanvid then why not try at least one or two?
If you want to try a new fandom or pairing, go for it! If you never write gen, challenge yourself! If you don't usually leave comments then try doing so for the next five (or ten) fanworks you enjoy and start building the habit. Comment to someone you haven't interacted with before :)

Snowflake Challenge Day 13

Day 13

In your own space, set some goals for the coming year. They can be fannish or not, public or private.

This is a good one to talk about. A couple of years ago it was comment on every fic that I finished reading at AO3 that was over 100 words. And I've done that, probably 98-99% success rate. Last year it was "write more ideas down so I don't forget them" and that's only been about 60% successful but that's still better than before. I did the writethisfanfic thing to get started and was OMG I can't write down all the things, but I got down a lot of them in a spreadsheet and I try to add to that. As I mentioned in another entry, I still don't always write it down, or I make a note somewhere other than the spreadsheet and have to do catch-up later but I'm getting better at it!

This year I've vowed to be nicer to myself. There's some personal rambling here so feel free to jump down to the bottom below the cut/stop reading!
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So this year instead of letting myself feel beaten down, I'm focussing on how to be kinder. To find things that make me happy and do them. To spend more time at DW and less on Tumblr. My mantra is "you don't have to do it all at once." Just keep going and maybe 250k is possible, or maybe not but 100k is.
Related: "It doesn't matter"; maybe you don't need to do the things at all or maybe not now or maybe not perfectly.
It's okay to say "I can't do this right now" and step back and reassess instead of beating myself up about it. I don't have to do it all at once or maybe at all.

This weekend I'm having to consider if I need to drop out of small fandon big bang. I had a few ideas for the fandom I'd chosen but I signed up when things were not great and I've only written a bit for any of the ideas. And I'm telling myself it's okay, there'll be another round of SFBB. I can write any of the ideas outside of SFBB (and that allows a lower wordcount). It's okay to not be able to do it this time. It's okay if I do suddenly have a burst of energy this week and get down enough words that I think I can finish by the deadline.
That's one example of how I'm trying to be kinder instead of telling myself I'm a failure!